5TH AVENUE BAY RIDGE EL pictures

[@richards.3404]

as an old Brooklynite, born 1957 ......these are amazing photos.👍

[@kalinystazvoruna8702]

Thanks for posting this. I started life in what is now called "Sunset Park" (32nd Street & 4th Avenue) and grew up in Bay Ridge but didn't know that there were all these elevated lines. Appreciate the history.

[@haroldalexis4200]

" Consider The El" The 1970's classic MODEL RAILROAD magazine cover & pictures of O gauge trains. What great pictures of these I've viewed, in the museum images. Thanks for sharing these I'm such a fan of the old elevated & subway lines! 🙂

[@lululuvsshoes]

These photos are awesome, thanks for posting this!

[@Stanf954]

OK. So the ramps adjacent to 38 St Yard coming down to the West End tied into the lower level of 9 Av and the continued as the Culver Shuttle to Ditmas.

[@luislaplume8261]

Yes it did! And I rode it in 1975 the year the Culver El shuttle was ended. The 4 car R 27s were used and only 1mtrack was in service and the stations still had their incandescent lights and wooden platforms.

[@merccadoosis8847]

💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 You deserve many more kudos for this fabulous video.

[@loissimmons6558]

The supports for the portion of the el over 3rd Avenue were repurposed for the Gowanus Expressway. Any hope that the merchants on 3rd Avenue had to finally see daylight was quashed by the red pencil of Robert Moses. The neighborhood was divided even more after the el was replaced by a highway.

[@thomasabramson100]

Thats what you get for electing democrooks

[@azul8811]

@@thomasabramson100 Is it fair to assume that you don't live in a large city?

[@kalinystazvoruna8702]

@@thomasabramson100 From Wikipedia: "Robert Moses at one point held 12 titles simultaneously (including New York City Parks Commissioner and Chairman of the Long Island State Park Commission), but was never elected to any public office (he ran only once, for governor of New York as a *Republican* in 1934 and lost to Herbert H. Lehman in a landslide). Emphasis added. So you're comment about Democrats is WRONG WRONG WRONG! Please do some research before posting.

[@tommyholiday9880]

Great photos! Thanks Steelo!

[@sopaman1234]

By the titles of those two movies on the right 0:25 this photo was taken around 1939-1940

[@gtomark71]

Thanks for posting

[@1575murray]

I don't know how single cars could run without gapping out at the turnouts.

[@pollutance]

Brooklyn (passing over the 9th Street Bridge)

[@oluhamilton2121]

I lived in EAST Brooklyn, this had might as well been MARS.

[@johnrobinsoniii4028]

Wow…I wasn’t even alive then!

[@YouBillyW]

That's more like Sunset Park not Bay Ridge

[@leonfountain]

the area you are referring to was not called Sunset Park at that time. It was called Bay Ridge. Bay Ridge started at 39th Street and went down to the southern end of Brooklyn. The name Sunset Park was used only for the park. The neighborhoods were renamed sometime in the 1960's.

[@kalinystazvoruna8702]

@@leonfountain I disagree. I was born on 32nd street and 3rd Avenue in 1948, lived there until I was five and played at Sunset Park. My older brother even fell of the monkey bars there, hit is head and had to have six stitches. We always knew the area as South Brooklyn and that Bay Ridge didn't start until 69th Street. It is true, however that the area from 36th street to 65th Street was later renamed Sunset Park. Haven't a clue what they call any of these areas now as everything has changed so much. Thanks to Steelo for uploading these pictures. I remember the Gowanus Expressway and the merchants on 3rd Avenue. Still dream about the place! :)

[@azul8811]

@@kalinystazvoruna8702 A quick search of the New York Times archives revealed an article published way back on April 6, 1918 entitled "Bay Ridge to Have Large Army Depot." The government took over the Langley Estate, and the area cited was from 59th to 64th street extending two blocks to 1st and 2nd Avenues. No mention of Sunset Park in the article. timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/04/06/102687794.html?pageNumber=12

[@travelingman484]

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